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On Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:13:29 +22313801 (EDT), Joey Gibson
<aix3!wjg@netcom.com> posted:
> I am trying to put commands into a \LaTeX\ document to cause a blank page
> to be ejected before any text is printed. The reason for this is that the
> way our spooler is set up, when I print to an HP LJ III in duplex mode, the
> first page of the document gets printed on side 2 of the banner page. So I
> want to send a blank sheet first so that my document starts on the second
> physical page. I have tried the \LaTeX\ commands \newpage, \pagebreak[4],
> and the \TeX\ command \eject, but all seem to get ignored by \TeX\ and
> \LaTeX\. If nay one could tell me how to do this, I would really appreciate
> it.

I'm sure that there's a more elegant way to achieve this, but a dirty trick
I've used quite often in getting this accomplished is to simply include:
 \strut \newpage
on the page I want blank.  LaTeX won't break an empty page (or so it
seems), so place something invisible (such as a \strut or a \ ) on the page
to give it something to digest prior to the \newpage.

Regards,   George
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